Dan Ouellette is a New York-based writer, author, journalist, editor, curator and speaker with an expertise in jazz music as well as “beyond jazz” music includes significant archival interviews with Frank Zappa, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello, John Lee Hooker, David Byrne, Allison Kraus, T-Bone Burnett, Joni Mitchell and others. Dan travels the world covering music. His explorations include Beijing, Cape Town (South Africa), Melbourne (Australia), Mali, Istanbul, Canada (Vancouver, Montreal, Quebec City), the Mississippi Delta jukejoints, Austria, and Italy (Genova, Perugia and Orvieto).